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Adjuster






Adjuster

The person assigned by an insurance company to determine its obligations under a policy when a claim is made or filed.

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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.

Insurance
Contracts. It is defined to be a contract of indemnity from loss or damage arising upon an uncertain event.

Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.

When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.

Claim
A demand for resolution or remedy of a grievance, or for something that is rightly the claimant's. Example: A demand for payment to recover a loss protected by an insurance policy. A demand in a court of law filed by a claimant on any juridical issue he / she considers.



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Adjudication
Practice. The giving or pronouncing a judgment in a cause;a judgment.

Adjuncts
English law. Additional judges appointed to determine causes in the High Court of Delegates, when the former judges cannot decide in consequence of disagreement, or because one of the law judges of the court was not one of the majority.

Adjunctum accessorium, civil law
Something which is an accessory and appurtenant to another thing.

Adjuration
The act by which one person solemnly charges another to tell or swear to the truth.

Adjustment center (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, a segregation center.

Adjustment to immigrant status
Procedure allowing certain aliens already in the United States to apply for immigrant status. Aliens admitted to the United States in a nonimmigrant, refugee, or parolee category may have their status changed to that of lawful permanent resident if they are eligible to receive an immigrant visa and one is immediately available. In such cases, the alien is counted as an immigrant as of the date of adjustment, even though the alien may have been in the United States for an extended period of time.

Adjutant
A military officer, attached to every battalion of a regiment. It is his duty to superintend, under his superiors, all matters relating to the ordinary routine of discipline in the regiment.

Adjutant-general
A staff officer; one of those next in rank to the Commander-in-chief.



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Attorney at law
A graduate of an accredited law school and member in good standing of the Bar Association. Only attorneys can give legal advice.

Attorney-at-law
A graduate of an accredited law school and member in good standing of the Bar Association. Only attorneys can give legal advice.

Attorney legal services
The services an attorney can provide to his or her clients, including both legal defense and attack.

Attorney General
An attorney general is a person having the position of chief law officer of a country.

Appeal attorney
Lawyers filing an appeal over a case that was lost in a prior court of law.

Adjuster

Allen E Kaye, P.C.
New York law firm.

Arenstein, Robert
New York law firm.

Anderson & Kriger
California law firm.

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